Currumbin C&C please

These pics are from a trip to Currumbin beach on Wednesday morning. I had two goals being to get a better feel for the 7D and to try to not overcook the post processing (which is something I think I'm usually guilty of).

C&C more than welcome.

7D, Canon 24-105 L @ 24mm, ISO 100.

Consider this a control shot. It is the unprocessed JPEG from the RAW+JPEG shot below. AWB, Picture style = Faithful

Re: Currumbin C&C please

Nice series Mark.

I find when shooting a sunrise or sunset the warmth of the shot causes the auto WB to add blue to neutralise the colour. Auto WB is generally ok but it struggles when you have mixed light sources like you do here. The sun is a direct source and everything else is lit by the indirect light reflected from the blue sky above the clouds.

I find when you want to record the colours you are seeing then Daylight is a better setting. Here the colours of the sunrise would punch more and you would lose the blue cast in the water from indirect light reflected from the sky above the clouds. In fact, I would probably have shot this using the Cloudy setting. One great benefit of shooting in RAW is you can go back and change it in post processing.

Getting the WB correct saves a lot of time trying to manipulate colour corrections.